Sentences with phrase «deity before»

An atonement theology directed towards the assuaging of guilt before God is a powerful gospel — in contexts where God is immediately and almightily real; or where (as we may note more skeptically) a religion is still powerful enough to hold up before its host culture the image of a holy and righteous deity before whom none is worthy except through the appropriate cultic observations.

I'd never heard that about the plagues attacking the Egyptian deities before you told me about it.

Though there is one way he could be be an actual atheist, he would just have had to lost his belief in any deities before the experiment.

Not exact matches

For all those who are talking to themselves today, thinking that some supernatural deity is listening to them, please seek professional psychiatric help before you hurt someone or yourself in the name of your sky fairy, vote against others» rights, or promote your chosen flavor of insanity over the scientific method.

Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha was born 630 years before Jesus, and it is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus was the greatest salesman of all time... sold the most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award

I'd love to see a sports figure at the end of a horrible game say something along the lines of «well, you know, my deity saw fit to make me look like I've never played this game before.

The deity of Jesus can also be seen in many other Papyri from long before Constantine, such as in P46 (175 - 200AD) and P66, dating from around 200AD.

And I'd like to be a fly on the wall when you're standing before him trying to explain why you worshipped the wrong deity your whole life.

Also before that time Jesus was not a deity — he was a remembered as aprophet.

But again, the same situation applies to the biblical deity in the relative time frame of «before» it got the ball rolling.

A more serious result of this shift to an agricultural society was the tendency to adopt the Canaanite (and before that, Babylonian) fertility cults of Baal and Ashtoreth, and to forsake the worship of Yahweh for a deity they thought might be more economically useful to them by increasing their herds and crops.

So take a «rock» outside and drop it, in planet with positive gravity, it will fall, but before it makes ground contact; ask your deity to stop it.

With an «everything» deity you have opposing forces... good / evil, hatred / love etc etc, to me, this would make it impossible for said deity to do anything, it would create as fast as it destroyed, it would love you one second and then hate you before the thought of love was completed.An everything style deity would have no compulsion to create simply because it is «everything», it needs no justification, no worship.

I've made mention of this before, if you really look around you at nature and you think a deity is involved then you have to say that deity is rather impersonal, cold, unfeeling.

What I was trying to say is that throughout history even before the God of the Christian bible and others, man has always tried to «invent» or worship a Deity.

’44 Before their conversion to Christianity the Pulayas only worwhipped the regional and local deities as distinct from other deities which were accessible only to higher castes.

I've asked this before, but have never gotten an answer, maybe you can give me one: What is an acceptable body count to your deity to bring people closer to it?

In the first two cities which she approached, the deities prostrated themselves before her and so saved their lives from the demons.

In a similar manner, theologians often felt obliged to show how knowledge of God was possible before they proceeded to address religious questions whose answers presupposed the existence of a deity.

e ¯ bha ¯ h is even used as synonymous with «idol» or heathen deity, John also says that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was no hospitality this is totally bogus, in fact their sin was the very same thing we see today that's why he cant see clearly that they were sinners before the Lord exceedingly, guilty of the most notorious crimes, and addicted to the most scandalous and unnatural lusts that can be thought of; and these they committed openly and publicly in the sight of God, in the most daring and impudent manner, and in defiance of him, without any fear or shame.

It was viewed as a way to cleanse oneself both physically and spiritually before meeting with that religion's deity.

I believe in a monotheistic deity, but that belief expands beyond, after, and before Christianity from Sikhism, Bahá «í, Zoroastrianism, Islam, etc..

Yes, though I would need a lot of information before I determined that whatever deity it was deserved worship.

The tribal deity of the Kenites took a new people as his own and a confederation of clans that never before had served Yahweh swore fealty to him as their divinity.

«The Gospel which contains the cross, resurrection, and deity - humanity of Christ is now considered by crossless proponents to be a fuller gospel needed only for Christians for their sanctification in time, but not necessarily for the unsaved regarding their justification before God.

Again, when Kierkegaard defended freedom in the same human - divine context (but did not alter the immutability of deity and thus fell behind the Socinians) how long was it before anyone saw what was wrong and that the job had been better done long before?

The spontaneous response of the Temple guard in prostrating themselves before Jesus was a token of his deity, even though those who paid him homage were not aware of what they had done.

Obviously angered by the raw deal done her, the suspended parliamentary candidate in a recorded interview stated that she had cursed the regional executives before the Antoa Nyama deity to deal ruthlessly with them for their unfair treatment against her.

Time was part of God's creation, and there simply was no «before» that a deity could call home.

Before Majora's Mask was ruled out I was hoping it would be Fierce Deity... Hoping for a bunch of character reveals in the Nintendo Direct a few days from now.

The biggest and best surprise of the year, Frailty treads the delicate line dividing exploitation and cheese (crossing over into both on occasion) before finally gelling into something as hopeful and existentially terrifying as a call to action by a malevolent deity.

Despite that small gripe, the actual levels look fantastic, and as mentioned before the Hoysala architecture, the mountain ranges of the Western Ghats, and the mythological sculptures of the Hindu deities look spectacular.

Nintendo plans to release a free update on Dec 2, 2016 which includes a new area, the Den of Trials, containing 30 stages as well as two new outfits: Linebeck's costume allows players to see inside chests before opening them and Fierce Deity Armor offers powered up attacks and a sword beam which splits in four directions.

And if you attempt to contemplate your reflection, as this viewer did, you will have to be on your knees to do so, a gesture of prayer before a painted deity who keeps his face forever turned away.